[If you want to set your students up to succeed, then a little extra effort at this stage will yield large dividends. Your assessment criteria need to be as explicit as possible. A rubric is a great idea, as it lets the students know exactly what criteria you will use to assess them. I tend to use the column headings Beginning to Develop, At Expected Level and Above Expected Level, but you could use almost anything relevant and meaningful. An example of one rubric I constructed for a Webquest can be found at http://futurepd.org/resources.htm Try to make your rubric as easy to follow as possible. Some examples might be…
Beginning to Develop
At Expected Level
Above Expected Level
References
Evidence of research from less than 4 sources
Evidence of research from at least 4 sources
Evidence of research from more than 7 sources
Originality
Text has simply been copied and pasted from other sources
Text from other sources has been paraphrased
Student has used reference material but constructed original text
Drawings
Drawings absent, irrelevant or difficult to interpret
Drawings are neat but simple and summarise the text
Drawings are neat and enhance the text
It should be clear to your students what they have to do to achieve at each level. They themselves should be able to assess how well they have met the criteria.]
[If you want to set your students up to succeed, then a little extra effort at this stage will yield large dividends. Your assessment criteria need to be as explicit as possible. A rubric is a great idea, as it lets the students know exactly what criteria you will use to assess them. I tend to use the column headings Beginning to Develop, At Expected Level and Above Expected Level, but you could use almost anything relevant and meaningful. An example of one rubric I constructed for a Webquest can be found at http://futurepd.org/resources.htm
Try to make your rubric as easy to follow as possible. Some examples might be…
It should be clear to your students what they have to do to achieve at each level. They themselves should be able to assess how well they have met the criteria.]